Daily Archives: November 15, 2009

U.S. Record Temperatures—A Closer Look From World Climate Report: A new paper that is soon to appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that across the U.S. daily record high temperatures are being set at about twice the frequency of daily record low temperatures and that this ratio—number of record highs to the number…

Guest post by Larry Fields The last Ice Age razed all of the coniferous forests in Finland. After the ice sheet retreated, trees from elsewhere–like the Scots Pine–gradually colonized the vacant niches. On a smaller scale, the same thing happened in many high mountains of the Earth’s temperate regions, including the Sierra Nevada Range of…

I always have to chuckle when somebody uses the phrase denier/delayer to label somebody for even the slightest transgression on climate /action/justice/activism/alarmism/pick a word. Briefly, this appeared on Google News: That was the original title of the piece. Somebody must have complained, because it didn’t last long: Look what The Guardian changed the title to:

Gore’s presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside By George Bennett Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Confused Palm Beach County voters helped thwart Al Gore’s 2000 bid to become president of the United States, but he was introduced as “president of the planet” when he returned here Saturday night to…

Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My thanks to him for doing this. – Anthony 450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of AGW caused Global Warming A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction based on…